Boo! A spooky ghost here! How are you doing? I’m okay. Once I was alive, but now I’m not. Guess things could be worse. Oh, if you’re wondering, I died from a heart attack. Did you think all ghosts died in tragic, dramatic ways? You’re dumb. Anyway, I mainly just sit around here, listening to Balam Acab’s Wander/Wonder (TMT Review) album from last year. See, it sounds like ghosts and I’m a ghost and, well, stick to what you know.

If I wasn’t tethered to this lame old house that I had my heart attack in, I’d go see Balam Acab live. But I am, so I won’t. You could go, though! He’s going on a fairly lengthy tour this spring, starting at the end of April and running through most of May. All of his shows will be with Active Child, who he’s doing a co-headlining thing with. Frankly, I don’t think Active Child sounds enough like a ghost for me to care, but what do I know? I know about ghosts, because I am a ghost.

Nika Danilova, the haunting chanteuse behind Zola Jesus, is planning a special acoustic collaboration at the Guggenheim on May 10. JG Thirlwell, Brooklyn-based mastermind behind Foetus and producer of many other ridiculous stage names (Manorexia and Steroid Maximus to name but two; body issues?), will create string arrangements based on nine Zola Jesus tunes from her last two albums, Stridulum (TMT Review) and Conatus (TMT Review). The Mivos Quartet will provide the on-site fiddlin’ while Thirlwell will be on hand as Musical Director to oversee the production.

Zola Jesus has something of a collaborating bug as of late, stepping up and providing vocals in one form or another for Orbital, M83, and David Lynch’s recent output. Don’t be surprised if you hear her pop up on the new Ke$ha single or providing the sound effects on a spoken word album. If asked, she will do it.

If you’re more in the mood to hear Danilova’s own material, though, she’s on tour now in Northern Europe and tickets to the Guggenheim show go on sale April 18 (April 17 for Guggenheim members). Check out the extensive tourdates below!

A couple weeks ago, we told you a little about a tour and a lot more about a proposed documentary for this Not Not Fun offshoot, and now I’ve got some details to toss your way thanks to Dummy Mag. Once May rolls around, diamond-dance/bliss-disco/basement-luxury/electro-summer fun/magic-beat-house-etc. jammers LA Vampires, Ital, Maria Minerva, and Magic Touch will all board a plane or cram into a canoe or hop onto a flying dragon to make their way over to Europe for a showcase tour.

Clear your schedules, folks, because if you want to hear Daniel Johnston’s latest album it’s gonna cost you some time and a whole bunch of finger swooshin’. Johnston’s new iPad game Space Ducks pits you, the player and hero to everyone you know, against a nefarious army of sentient quackers hell bent on destroying whatever it is you call Daniel Johnston’s conception of reality. Or maybe you’re in league with the ducks and together you fight off hordes of anti-duck legislators who want to send the fowl’s sexual rights careening back into the 19th century. “Stay out of my cloaca, Santorum!” is a stirring line that could be but is almost certainly not included within the game’s storyline. Sorry, I don’t have an iPad, so I hope you’ve enjoyed this latest edition of TMT’s Conjecture Corner!

Each victory in the game unlocks a song from the Space Ducks LP, at long last turning video games into a rewarding practical endeavor. (There’s also a Space Ducks comic if you’re really into this concept.) The app represents Johnston’s latest foray into the realm of new media since coming out with his “Hi, How Are You?” iPhone game in 2009. With any luck Johnston will come out with another app in a few years, thus ensuring that no one who owns an iPhone or iPad will ever be bored again!

Here we are in the year 2012 and here I am making a joke about how Bloc Party doesn’t have a “K” in their name. Because people usually spell “block party” with a “K,” you dig? Ah, welcome back to 2005. I also have some great “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” jokes, if you’ve got time. Before I get to those, Pitchfork reports that Bloc Party have signed to Frenchkiss, who will officially be changing their name to Frenchiss in solidarity. Ha, no K! Currently, the group is working on a follow-up to their last record, 2008’s Intimacy. Unofficially, they’re taking a lot of inspiration from the Frenchkiss-released Separation Sunday, because, you know, 2005. Along with the Frenchkiss signing, the group has made a deal with Cooperative Music to handle their releases outside of the US.

To further their nostalgia trip, the band is reissuing their debut single “She’s Hearing Voices” on vinyl for Record Store Day. That particular release came out in 2004, the older, slightly-wiser brother of 2005. Transgressive Records will be handling that release. While everyone’s dreaming about the middle of last decade, Bloc Party will be heading out on the road for a quick tour of European festivals. By the way, kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.

Can, the legendary krautrock weirdos that influenced everyone from LCD Soundsystem to James Murphy solo (probably a few others too), have been riding the reissue train lately, with a deluxe edition of 1971’s Tago Mago out last year and reissues of all their albums in a vinyl box set on the horizon. That’s great and all, but you should really be smacking yourself hard if you haven’t heard all those Can albums already (pre-Landed, at least). Superfans have found much to satiate their need for more Can, with fantastic bootlegs (like Radio Waves and Horrortrip in the Paperhouse), and recent releases of pre-Can material (The Inner Space’s Agilok & Blubbo), but it seemed like the archives would be running dry about now… .. ..ohmanlookingforwardtothenextparagraphherewego!

However, Mute Records has announced that it will release — in the shape of an oversized reel-to-reel tape box — The Lost Tapes, a 3-CD set compiled by Can keyboardsman Irmin Schmidt and Mute head Daniel Miller consisting of unreleased, rediscovered CAN JAMS from 1968-1977, featuring the lineup of Schmidt, Holger Czukay, Michael Karoli, Jaki Liebezeit, and both Malcolm Mooney and Damo Suzuki on vocals! Thank god it wasn’t material from 1978-1989. The set (along with 28-page booklet) comes out June 18 in Europe and June 19 in the US. Irmin Schmidt explained the origins of this random bounty:

Obviously the tapes weren’t really lost, but were left in the cupboards of the studio archives for so long everybody just forgot about them. Everybody except Hildegard, who watches over Can and its work like the dragon over the gold of the Nibelungen and doesn’t allow forgetting.

And there’s the cold hard facts. Head here to sign up for a mailing list about any new information, and hear an edit of the opening cut “Millionenspiel” below. Yep, it’s as good as you’d hope!